Quotes About Courage

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.